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Personal immigration history:

- Great-grandfather (dad): Giuseppe Balsamo

- Great-grandmother (dad): Elvira DelliPaoli

- Great-great-grandmother (mom): Catarina Castori

- Great-great-grandfather (mom): Pasquale Marzigliano

Relationship with Italian history and culture:

- Born and raised in America, but alongside traditional Italian

values and cultural traditions.

- Language, food, and a deeply personal relationship

with my heritage led to questions of my own identity,

why my family left Italy, and how I can reconcile the

dual ways I've been raised.

A Journey Through Italy

Florence

Uffizi Gallery

Palazzo Vecchio/Uffizi

Palazzo Vecchio

Ponte Vecchio

The Duomo

Introduction

Rome

Venice

Amphitheater

Colosseum

Bridge of Sighs

Burano

Jewish district

Egeria's Letters: How Do They Relate?

Sardinia

Egeria's Letters:

- Epistolary format makes it easy to chronicle a long journey, in careful detail.

- The letters emphasize a personal relationship with one's ancestors, and the act of "imitation" as a means of reconnecting with one's past.

- Distinct relationship with language and food present in Egeria.

- Integrates both a solo journey, and a collective journey, complete with guides, and fellow travelers.

My Family's Journey and communitas

WORKS CITED

Conceptions of communitas on our journey:

- A journey as a family: spiritual, ancestral.

- A journey as a tour group: different walks of life, different reasons for traveling, ultimately the same desire for a sense of belonging and understanding.

What is different for me after this journey?

- New understanding of my country of ancestry, the language, and the culture.

- Distinctions between Italian-American culture, and exclusively Italian/American cultures.

In what ways was this trip medieval?

- The trip was definitely more modern than medieval; though we traveled extensively on foot once we'd arrived, our journey to Italy was by plane (not medieval at all).

- Community along the way could be considered medieval: crafted our own semi-cohesive community as we traveled.

Egeria, et al. The Pilgrimage of Egeria. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1919.

www.ccel.org/m/mcclure/etheria/etheria.htm

Geary, Patrick. “Sacred Commodities: the Circulation of Medieval Relics.” The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 169-190.

Laurino, Maria. The Italian Americans: A History. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 2015.

Mangione, Jerre, and Ben Morreale. La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American

Experience. Harper Perennial, New York. 1993.

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